amt 1969 corvair

I went here:

and followed the link for picture of the engine. Couldn't see much; it looks aluminum to me, but I could be wrong. Have you tried going to eBay and seeing if anyone is selling a Corvair? They might have phots of the engine included in the auction site.

the only thing that can really be seen of the engine is the shroud covering the whole top of the engine

actually what your seeing as aluminum is a black painted shroud housing the cooling fan on top of the engine, the shroud covers the whole top of the engine, i googled for engine pics before asking here but can find nothing showing the color of the block itself

I helped a friend rebuild his corvair engine. IIRC, the block was dark aluminum. (like American Mag wheels of the era) To duplicate the color, you can mix a very small amount of black paint with some aluminum paint.

Hope this helps, Dave Ambrose

Or use one of the darker Testors Metalizers, like Magniesium or Titanium.

Yes. It was oily aluminum.

Cheers, Dave Ambrose

Yeah, took mine apart once. crankcase is aluminum, unpolished. Cylinder barrels are iron, somewhat rust colored. heads are aluminum, again unpolished. sheet metal surrounding the thing is black. trans case is aluminum.

Yeah, and the whole thing should be covered with a light wash of motor oil from the leaky push rod tubes.

As should the driver, with the heater on.